I would like to know your opinion on these as well:

1) Which one of these images do you think looks more realistic?

http://koti.kapsi.fi/warp/media/pov37_test1.png
http://koti.kapsi.fi/warp/media/pov37_test2.png


2) Currently, when using assumed_gamma 1 in povray 3.7 mode, default
color values in things like the ambient finish do not get adjusted in
terms of srgb, but remain in their rgb values (for example, the default
ambient finish is "rgb 0.1"), which means that a change in assumed_gamma
will affect their brightness.

The second image above was rendered by explicitly specifying the default
ambient finish (using the #default directive in the scene file) using
"srgb". Without this explicit setting, ie. using the default value, the
image looks like this:

http://koti.kapsi.fi/warp/media/pov37_test4.png

(It's essentially impossible to get any shades are darker than that due to
the default ambient finish.)

So my question is: Should POV-Ray define default colors (eg. in the ambient
finish, and anywhere else where there are default colors) in terms of srgb
(which would result in the second image by default, without having to
explicitly set those defaults), or is the current functionality ok (which
by default results in the third image).

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                                                          - Warp

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